re: Eric Berry shouldn't be 1st Team All-SEC

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Well, what exactly makes Tebow 1st Team in your eyes?

We can all agree it's not stats.

If it's off the field feel good stories, do we not honor those who are thugs like Spikes? What if you aren't morally upstanding? Since when do we hand out SEC honors on this?

If it's "leadership", isn't that a tad subjective? I know a whole team of men that call Mallett their leader.

If it's team records, does Eric Berry drop to 3rd team?

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I'm going to wade into the quagmire...

Tim Tebow deserves to be first team all SEC. Mallet does have better stats, but this honor, as with almost every honor in colegiate football, is NOT solely based on objective facts. Never has been, never will be. Never should be, IMO.

Tebow is one of those rare players that can lift an entire team, almost every time he steps on the field..he simply elevates the play of the entire team. Maybe its as simple as some guys thinking "Tebow is on MY side. We've got this."

Whatever the reason, it is this totally subjective quality that causes the media to fawn over him, causes him to be in the running for awards that other might not be given the same stats.

Mallet does not have this quality. No other player in the SEC currently has it. Tebow does. Every team that plays the Gators is worrying about what Tim Tebow is going to do.

I promise you that LSU players, UGA players, etc., are/were more worried about Tebow than Mallet. Maybe their worries are misplaced if going solely on stats, but the fact is that Tim Tebow brings something to the game that almost no one else currently does. And people recognize it.

That is why he will win honors that Mallet will not.